Americas President · Founder, SecurePII

Bill Placke

Roles

Role	Organisation	Sources
Americas President · Founder	SecurePII	Startup Daily (31 Oct 2025), Startup Daily (31 Oct 2025), SmartCompany, Tidal Ventures

Coverage

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Cheque-in: 8 startups raised $113 million this week to end October

Weekly funding roundup covering eight raises totalling over $113 million across aerospace, biotech, materials, health and software, plus a pharmacy firm's acquisition out of administration.

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Eight ANZ startups that raised $113 million this week

Weekly roundup of eight trans-Tasman startup raises worth a combined $113 million-plus, alongside Joe Zhou's buyout of StrongRoom AI from administrators.

SmartCompany 31 Oct 2025 ENA Respiratory Huckleberry Human Health Hypersonix Launch Systems SecurePII StrongRoom AI Tala Thrive Uluu 800x Limited Amazon AskNicely BroadSource Canva Cricket Health Foundervine Joe Zhou Kantar M-Com Mineral OIF Ventures Papinelle Quiksilver TradeMe AirTree Ventures Aliavia Archangel Ventures Brandon Capital Burda Principal Investments EVP Fairground Flu Lab Gates Foundation High Tor Capital LocalGlobe Main Sequence Ventures National Reconstruction Fund Corporation Novel Investments Oregon Venture Fund Queensland Investment Corporation RKKVC Saab Scale Investors Skip Capital Startmate Stoic Venture Capital Tidal Ventures Trinity Ventures Uniseed Arvind Rajan David Shein Duncan Gould Eric Salama Feike D Izzy Obeng Nathan Christensen Rowan Simpson Serge Van Dam Aaron Ward Bill Placke Christophe Demaison David Gall Diogo Böhm Georgia Vidler Haydn Faltyn Jason Thals Joe Zhou Dr Julia Reisser Kate Lambridis Michael Kingsbury Sonia Kaurah

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Seed

Investment Notes: SecurePII

Tidal Ventures explains why it has invested in SecurePII, a voice-compliance startup whose platform redacts payment card data from calls, covering market timing, product, channel model, founders and seed-stage plans.

Tidal Ventures 31 Oct 2025 SecurePII BroadSource Cisco Genesys Microsoft Teams Zoom Tidal Ventures Bill Placke Haydn Faltyn Jason Thals Wendell Keuneman

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